Paula Kate
@pkmarmor.bsky.social
Retiree, metadata wrangler, Wikidatan, Stratfordian, hopelessly Pre-Raphaelite. Past lives @ GEnie SFRT and LJ. Building online community since 1991.
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Paula Kate
@pkmarmor.bsky.social
· Dec 24
These are so much fun!
#Booksky We’re doing our first ever ebook set and it’s up for preorder now! Get a great deal on the entire Astreiant Series for some great gay fantasy reading to end the year! Releases 12/15 and preorders are up at our site, Smashwords and beyond - queenofswordspress.com/product/comp...
November 19, 2025 at 12:21 AM
These are so much fun!
November 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Who-hoo!
Several years ago, we put a whole bunch of data from a project into Wikidata. Now, as a result, some people who we had no more info for aside from a name or could not disambiguate are actually identifiable. LOD FTW.
November 17, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Who-hoo!
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What began as a one-day field trip to the newly-reopened Egyptian Agricultural Museum turned into a harvest of knowledge documenting ancient farming tools, ceramics, and more.
Learn how Egypt Wikimedians are documenting history and culture ➡️ w.wiki/Fm3X
Learn how Egypt Wikimedians are documenting history and culture ➡️ w.wiki/Fm3X
November 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
What began as a one-day field trip to the newly-reopened Egyptian Agricultural Museum turned into a harvest of knowledge documenting ancient farming tools, ceramics, and more.
Learn how Egypt Wikimedians are documenting history and culture ➡️ w.wiki/Fm3X
Learn how Egypt Wikimedians are documenting history and culture ➡️ w.wiki/Fm3X
I love this illustration! 🖤
For #MWE25 we’ve created free teaching worksheets on the Fibonacci sequence, golden number, & the golden ratio.
Download them plus a free chapter on Fibonacci from A Little History of Mathematics by
@snezanalawrence.bsky.social: yalebooks.co.uk/a-little-his...
#UKMathsChat #MathsToday #teamaths
Download them plus a free chapter on Fibonacci from A Little History of Mathematics by
@snezanalawrence.bsky.social: yalebooks.co.uk/a-little-his...
#UKMathsChat #MathsToday #teamaths
A Little History of Mathematics Teaching Resources
For Maths Week England, we’ve created a collection of engaging teaching worksheets exploring the Fibonacci sequence, the golden number, and the golden
yalebooks.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I love this illustration! 🖤
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The British Art Journal is back!
Online only instead of hard copy
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Subscribe it’s free!!! – to receive notifications
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Our last printed edition was Volume XXIV in 2023
And so here, in 2025, is Volume XXV – online
Online only instead of hard copy
britishartjournal.co.uk
Subscribe it’s free!!! – to receive notifications
Just click ‘Subscribe now’ at the top of the home page
Our last printed edition was Volume XXIV in 2023
And so here, in 2025, is Volume XXV – online
March 18, 2025 at 12:03 PM
The British Art Journal is back!
Online only instead of hard copy
britishartjournal.co.uk
Subscribe it’s free!!! – to receive notifications
Just click ‘Subscribe now’ at the top of the home page
Our last printed edition was Volume XXIV in 2023
And so here, in 2025, is Volume XXV – online
Online only instead of hard copy
britishartjournal.co.uk
Subscribe it’s free!!! – to receive notifications
Just click ‘Subscribe now’ at the top of the home page
Our last printed edition was Volume XXIV in 2023
And so here, in 2025, is Volume XXV – online
Looking forward to this one!
Popping in to say I’m writing a book! And St. Martin’s and @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social are publishing it! I’m very excited! Extra big thanks to Emma Bal at Madeleine Milburn!
November 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Looking forward to this one!
#Georgian #costume isn’t my core focus, but O.M.G. #18thCentury #dressHistory.
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Thomas Hudson, (1701-79) | Portrait of a Finely Dressed Gentleman
Oil on canvas 50 x 40 1⁄8 in. (127 x 102 cm)
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November 12, 2025 at 7:08 PM
#Georgian #costume isn’t my core focus, but O.M.G. #18thCentury #dressHistory.
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philipmould.com/artworks/cat...
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I can’t help it. The grackles are still here, and need to be photographed 🤣
The male Common Grackles usually take every opportunity to display, especially in the spring! But it’s Fall, and this male was displaying a lot! Apparently, he knows what he looks like🤣
#Birds #photography #wildlife 🪶
The male Common Grackles usually take every opportunity to display, especially in the spring! But it’s Fall, and this male was displaying a lot! Apparently, he knows what he looks like🤣
#Birds #photography #wildlife 🪶
September 20, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I can’t help it. The grackles are still here, and need to be photographed 🤣
The male Common Grackles usually take every opportunity to display, especially in the spring! But it’s Fall, and this male was displaying a lot! Apparently, he knows what he looks like🤣
#Birds #photography #wildlife 🪶
The male Common Grackles usually take every opportunity to display, especially in the spring! But it’s Fall, and this male was displaying a lot! Apparently, he knows what he looks like🤣
#Birds #photography #wildlife 🪶
These reliably turn color in the fall in Southern California, no matter the weather, and they are everywhere.
Sweetgum, Liquidambar styraciflua, is the tree that most represents the glory of autumn. It displays more colors in a single tree than any other in our flora. Have a look at these colors at Our Trees. Can you think of a tree with such a diversity of colors in a single tree?
Tom Kimmerer (@tomkimmerer)
There is one tree that, to me, represents the glory of autumn. It is sweetgum, Liquidambar styraciflua. There is no tree that can display so many colors at once. Here are leaves of a single sweetgum t...
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September 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
These reliably turn color in the fall in Southern California, no matter the weather, and they are everywhere.
Perfect little period piece.
This is a garment I have shared often for its neat little details but also because it reminds me of my grandmother’s wedding dress. She told me it was blue (it was a wartime wedding) and I picture her when I see this from 1939 #fidmmuseum #FashipnHistory 🗃️🪡
August 31, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Perfect little period piece.
Marking so I don’t forget to read this
📢 In Case You Missed It 📢
Our August 'Will of the Month' post is now live on our blog! 📜
It explores the will of a Huguenot 'Master Weaver', who lived in Stepney and made a bequest of 'all the Loomes and Harnesses belonging to a Weavers’ Trade' 🧶 #skystorians 👇
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Our August 'Will of the Month' post is now live on our blog! 📜
It explores the will of a Huguenot 'Master Weaver', who lived in Stepney and made a bequest of 'all the Loomes and Harnesses belonging to a Weavers’ Trade' 🧶 #skystorians 👇
sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
August 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Marking so I don’t forget to read this
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The House of Worth was renowned for its fancy dress commissions, catering to those spectacular costumed c19th costumed parties. This is the 1770s for a turn of the century audience, a c1900 gown imitating an c18th lady @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
August 28, 2025 at 9:57 AM
The House of Worth was renowned for its fancy dress commissions, catering to those spectacular costumed c19th costumed parties. This is the 1770s for a turn of the century audience, a c1900 gown imitating an c18th lady @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
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Today is gloriously sunny with an expected high of 75°F (24C), and I am so happy to have all my windows open.
So are the cats, because it means they have unrestricted access to the back porch.
So are the cats, because it means they have unrestricted access to the back porch.
August 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Today is gloriously sunny with an expected high of 75°F (24C), and I am so happy to have all my windows open.
So are the cats, because it means they have unrestricted access to the back porch.
So are the cats, because it means they have unrestricted access to the back porch.
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I feel like this painting should have a Wikidata item already, but I couldn’t find it, so I made one here: www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1359...
August 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I feel like this painting should have a Wikidata item already, but I couldn’t find it, so I made one here: www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1359...
Oh my lord this ⬇️ (sound on)
Timeline cleanse.
Seriously, you need to watch this.
Seriously, you need to watch this.
She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩
August 18, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Oh my lord this ⬇️ (sound on)
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*THE OPEN ACCESS COMPANION TO THE CANTERBURY TALES*, a free, scholer-produced onlyne resource for teachinge and learninge *The Canterbury Tales* at the universitye level: opencanterburytales.lsusites.org
The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales – The new way to learn about old books
opencanterburytales.lsusites.org
August 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM
*THE OPEN ACCESS COMPANION TO THE CANTERBURY TALES*, a free, scholer-produced onlyne resource for teachinge and learninge *The Canterbury Tales* at the universitye level: opencanterburytales.lsusites.org
First time we’ve ever seen a woodpecker on the hummingbird feeder.
August 12, 2025 at 9:04 PM
First time we’ve ever seen a woodpecker on the hummingbird feeder.
This 👇
Stay alive and make things
this is maybe trite at this point but it is in your interest to find ways to create things. basically everyone wants you to be consuming nonstop. making stuff, from cooking to photography or whatever, can help you feel more in control. doesn’t even have to be something you share with other people
August 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This 👇
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PLEASE REPOST! When the Uncanny Magazine Year 12: Fly Forever, Space Unicorns! Kickstarter reaches 1075 Backers, we will add the wonderful Wil Wheaton to our list of Year 12 Solicited Essayists! LET'S MAKE THIS HAPPEN, SPACE UNICORNS! buff.ly/EkZtcee
August 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
PLEASE REPOST! When the Uncanny Magazine Year 12: Fly Forever, Space Unicorns! Kickstarter reaches 1075 Backers, we will add the wonderful Wil Wheaton to our list of Year 12 Solicited Essayists! LET'S MAKE THIS HAPPEN, SPACE UNICORNS! buff.ly/EkZtcee
This is such good news. laist.com/news/housing...
These LA homes were about to be torn down. Now they’re getting new life in fire-ravaged Altadena
The Historic House Relocation Project aims to get residents with fire-damaged lots into homes faster, while restoring character to the neighborhood.
laist.com
July 24, 2025 at 3:10 AM
This is such good news. laist.com/news/housing...
I’m not big on movie merch, but I do have a gen-u-wine Blue Blaze Irregulars patch somewhere in my stash.
Well said.
In 1984, as the closing credits rolled, I told myself “I MUST see this movie AGAIN and AGAIN!”
But if you try watching THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI ACROSS THE EIGHTH DIMENSION, and you’re not enjoying it, turn it off.
Don’t force yourself to watch the rest. It’s all like that.
In 1984, as the closing credits rolled, I told myself “I MUST see this movie AGAIN and AGAIN!”
But if you try watching THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI ACROSS THE EIGHTH DIMENSION, and you’re not enjoying it, turn it off.
Don’t force yourself to watch the rest. It’s all like that.
July 21, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I’m not big on movie merch, but I do have a gen-u-wine Blue Blaze Irregulars patch somewhere in my stash.
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"Accept certain inalienable truths: prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were
noble and children respected their elders."
(Words by Mary Schmich)
noble and children respected their elders."
(Words by Mary Schmich)
July 20, 2025 at 8:41 PM
"Accept certain inalienable truths: prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were
noble and children respected their elders."
(Words by Mary Schmich)
noble and children respected their elders."
(Words by Mary Schmich)
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Hours of fun spent realigning my foolishly London-centric assumptions about medieval European trading networks. Shetland, for example, was far from peripheral: a non-Mercator map-projection helps.
I've rebuilt the journey-timed, square-rigged sailing algorithm for docuracy.github.io/Historical_S...
I've rebuilt the journey-timed, square-rigged sailing algorithm for docuracy.github.io/Historical_S...
July 19, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Hours of fun spent realigning my foolishly London-centric assumptions about medieval European trading networks. Shetland, for example, was far from peripheral: a non-Mercator map-projection helps.
I've rebuilt the journey-timed, square-rigged sailing algorithm for docuracy.github.io/Historical_S...
I've rebuilt the journey-timed, square-rigged sailing algorithm for docuracy.github.io/Historical_S...